Al Porter was accused of sexual assault by classmates when in secondary school

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Al Porter previously revealed that he was accused of sexually assaulting three classmates when in secondary school.

The comedian made the revelations in a podcast last July with Des Bishop which has since been deleted, the Sunday World report.

The Tallaght man explained in the interview that when in transition year three fellow students made allegations against him.

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He was however later found to have done nothing wrong.

He said: "When we were in transition year, guys were like slapping each other on the ass and like f*****g grabbing each other and I was doing it too.

"But three guys went to my guidance counsellor and said that I had sexually assaulted them.

"So I got brought into the guidance counsellor's room and he was like 'hey we actually know that you weren't and we totally don't think that there was anything wrong here, but as a matter of course, we have to tell your parents.

"They rang my dad and he came he just kind of listened and was like 'okay' and came home and was like 'so are you gay?' and I just said no."

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He said: "They have apologised in later life. All three of them have come to see my shows."

Porter has resigned from his roles as a Today FM presenter mad host of TV3's Blind Date after a number of allegations were made against him.

He has also stepped aside from his role in the Olympia Theatre panto with Rory Cowan replacing him.

In a statement on the allegations the comedian said: "While my conduct, which had been in keeping with my flamboyant and outrageous public persona may be regarded as offensive and unacceptable by many people, I at no time intended to upset anyone."